[tex-live] Fortran and Pascal sources
Khaled Hosny
khaledhosny at eglug.org
Wed Oct 6 20:29:20 CEST 2010
On Wed, Oct 06, 2010 at 07:51:20PM +0200, Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
> On 6 October 2010 Norbert Preining wrote:
>
> > I would suggest to let fortran rest in peace for the next 300
> > years.
>
> Means: Fortran is the programming language of the future, but
> mankind is not yet ready for it.
FORTRAN's tragic fate has been its wide acceptance, mentally chaining
thousands and thousands of programmers to our past mistakes.
Edsger W. Dijkstra
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Fortran
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Khaled Hosny
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